Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-10-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
RIPE EARLY POTATOES.

ground and q wet spell comes on, as
is apt to now, they will begin to grow
and soon become worthless for cookin,
or other uses.
KEEPING GOOD STOCK.
| More farmers fail from attempting
too much in stock W thout sufficient
experience than from any other ont
cause. They maintain altogether toe
many animals of poor to medium quail
ity. 1t is better to have only ono good
COW than TO have two or three medium
ones. The one animal will leave the
farmer chance TO devote his time and
laEd to some more profitable purpose,
VIII le the man overstocked with poor
animals finds that they absorb and eat
every ting he grows.
WEED SEEDS IN SCREENINGS.
In cleaning up grain for market, II
the work is done properly there will
be nothing left in the screenings but
Tho seeds of weeds. These should be
burned. Even if there are u few I'M
perfect grains among the screenings.
farmers cannot afford to feed the whole
to stock. and thus get weed seeds into
their manure heaps. Screenings are
mostly given to poultry. This is an
other cause of loss, for they will eat
many weed seeds which are injurious.
and often stop them from. laying at
this season.
sUNFLowER SEED FOR CHICKEN FEED.
In the Fall, when Sunnowers ripen
their seed, it requires some practice
and perhaps some starvation to make
fowls eat it. But after becoming used
to this new diet. and especially in cold
weather, fowls are very fond of it. The
seed of sunllowers has much oil in it.
which makes it q better feed for cold
weather. BY this time too the acrid
iu ces of the green stalk have evaporat-
ed. 1t is better therefore TO put the
suntlower heads away for winter use,
nothing doubling that they will be
wanted.
SENSE OF SMELL IN INSECTS.
1t is an undoubted fact that most
loXious insects are guided by their
sense of smell to the places proper for
them to feed or depos their eggs. 1t
is to this popularity that many
odOriferous substances owe their
supposed repcllant powers. The insect
is not, strictly speaking, repealed. but
the stronger foreign odor disgu ses
that of its proper food and therefore it
cannot find it. Thus any cheap but
slrong-smclling substance may check
insects ravages Just as ctficaciously
as something much more expensive.
SHELTER FOR COWS FROM COLD.
1t may seem to some strange TO
advise giving some shelter to COWS at
night thus early in the season. In clear
weather even in July and August cows
in fields will get under trees TO lie down.
so that there may be less radiation of
their own warmth into space. If any
one tries sleeping out of doors in
summer. rs campers sometimes do, he
will be apt 10 feel a chilly sensation
towards morning. Of course when
cold storms prevail. as they are liable
to from now onward, the necessity for
shelter is greatly increased.
SWEET AND SOUR CREAM.
Uniformity in cream is one secret of
getting large amount OF butter from
it, This is one of the great advantages
Of the creamery system which. in
changeable weather, it is d f1icult to get
without it. If sweet and sour cream
are mixed together nearly all the sweet
cream goes into the butterm TX. In
some cases where the amount of butter
was not nearly what it ought to be.
farmers wives have churned the butter
milk and got enough more butter TO pay
for the extra labor. But a creamery
would cost tile. and in many places
pa, itself in one season by the increased
butter product.
TINE TO CUT CORN.
Owing to the great amount of heat
the past Summer much corn will be
ready to cut early. Some farmers have
habit of leaving corn just as long rs
they safely can. and rs everybody is
liable to make a wrong guess, they
generally have more or less corn cut
by frost. This is serious misfortune
not alone for the fodder. which is badly
injured. but for the damage to the i'm
mature grain. 1t is safer to err in cut
ting too early than in delaying until
after frost. When well glazed the corn
may be cut, and if well put up will
ripen enough to grow, yet the grains
will be diminished in size. making the
rows wide apart on the cob.
Is BUTTER DIGEsTIBLE
Some agricultural papers are discuss
ing the comparat We digestibilty of
butter. The old-fashioncd idea taught
in the books many years ago was that
pure butter was wholly ind gestibe,
that in large masses it was melted by
the warmth OF the stomach and operated
as so much oil until it passes off with
other food. That, however. was main
ly theory. In practice it is found that
a piece of bread with butter is to most
palates so much better relished than
one without that it digests more quick
ly. The digestibiity depends entirely
on the increased saliva that good butter
is supposed to create. That butter then
is therefore most digestible that is best
liked. Very bad butter fulfills the old
idea, and is not gestible at all.
TWO KINDS OF OATS.
Many farmers find this year that they
have some of both light and heavy oats
rpening on different parts OF the
head accord NC to the weather
at the different times of matur-
ing. The heavier oats are much the
more profitable for feeding; but some
times hotel keepers and horse boarding
Oil. GaaVnrs nurpncaly huv tho Itch,